In May the rainy season has started. Everything turned green and all the plants are ballooning. Besides teaching kindergarten I find it very balancing to spend some time in the garden.
Gardening Class
I started planting vegetables with my children in school. They enjoy it so much to be outside in the garden, to work there and to see the vegetables grow. This is a very big blessing also too me. At the entrance of the kindergarten we have also planted some flowers, which haven’t bloomed yet, but are growing up the wall and make kindergarten way prettier.
Additionally VIDA – the ministry started a garden with really good soil. Sadly half of the garden wasn’t used by anyone, therefore I asked for permission to plant some vegetables there. My cucumbers are growing like crazy – each plant has already around 15 little cucumbers on it and two of the cucumbers are ready to be harvested. I also planted zucchini, which is ready to be harvested soon! Other plants, which I just started to plant the last week are: spinach, peas, different types of peppers and some more things.
And the coolest thing – at least to me – is that mango season started. The Mangos are growing in huge amounts on the trees and I cant wait to take them down and eat them. Sadly they are not ripe yet, but from the coast we already receive ripe mangos. It is a wonderful addition to the watermelon and papaya we eat every day.
The people here take the green mangos from the trees and eat them with salt and pepper! Its totally sour and kind of spicy and I haven’t really gotten used to that, especially because I don’t consider it to be too healthy 😀
The only way I can eat green mango is as a: “Green Mango Jam”!
This actually tastes really good!! A lady in town taught me how to do this: She boils the green mango till its soft, takes out the green fruit flesh and boils it again with sugar – and there you go. It tastes pretty good, because it has a light sour but still sweet taste!
Around the garden we have a very long fence and on the fence are lots of green plants growing. As I passed by there lately, I saw these round big fruits growing on it and not just a few of them, many of these fruits. So I started wondering what these fruits were – and somebody explained me, that this is passion fruit. I never thought or knew that passion fruit grows and looks like this before we harvest it. So soon we are also looking forward to harvest many passion fruits.
But don’t worry: I will eat some Mangos for you too 🙂
Lots of love,
Hanna
